Very excited to be joining Bloomberg News as a White House correspondent. Grateful to the wonderful people I’ve worked with at CNN over the years and thrilled to be joining Bloomberg’s stellar team starting Monday.
US senators introduced a bill that would authorize $200 million a year in security assistance to Lebanon’s armed forces & impose sanctions on foreign persons who back Hezbollah. It aims to build on a US-brokered ceasefire between Lebanon & Israel:
NEW: Senior admin official says Iran agreement is not expected to be signed today. Iran has agreed in principle to dispose of highly enriched uranium in exchange for US lifting the blockade, and US believes Iran's supreme leader has approved the broad template for the draft deal.
“A man charged a security checkpoint armed with multiple weapons and he was taken down by some very brave members of Secret Service” — Trump gives an update after gunfire broke out in the hotel where the White House correspondents’ dinner was being held
I just spoke to the President on the phone. He said Iran has agreed to an “unlimited” suspension of its nuclear program and that the US is not going to release any frozen Iranian funds.